The senator from Illnois has picked up seven superdelegates today -- his biggest one-day haul since the battle for superdelegates intensified in the nomination race.
It may not have been the immediate flood that pundits, politicos and partisans were expecting after the results were in from Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina but now it looks like the pace of superdelegates swinging to Barack Obama is quickening and he's building a lead over Hillary Clinton.
Since Tuesday's results, Obama has picked up 13 new superdelegates. Clinton has netted one -- she was endorsed by Reps. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., Chris Carney, D-Pa., and Ciro Rodriguez, D-Texas, but she lost two superdelegates who switched to Obama. Obama now has a lead of 169 total delegates.
Senator Obama addressed his surge in superdelegates today on the campaign trail:
"I'm gratified that we've got some superdelegates that are coming our way. And I think we've got a strong case to make that I will be a nominee that can pull the party together and take on John McCain in the fall. Our focus has always been on the pledged delegates and just getting the American people to vote for us and we think that ultimately that should be the strongest measure of whose the nominee, but if superdelegates also feel that we're going to be a strong candidate then I'm very pleased with that."
But as he looks to be likely the Democrat nominee senator Obama still didn't rule out senator Clinton as he said today that he and Clinton are "still in the middle of the race," although it did not seem like that in his remarks at a campaign event in Beaverton, OR.
ABC News' reports,that while Obama launched a "point by point breakdown" of his differences with John McCain on the economy, health care and gas prices, one name was notably not part of his prepared remarks – Hillary Clinton.
The report notes that this is another signal that Obama is "quickly shifting gears toward his general election strategy."
"Senator McCain is running for President to double down on George Bush's failed policies. I am running to change them, and that will be the fundamental difference in this election when I am the Democratic nominee for President," Obama said at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon.
But as Senator Obama looks ahead to the general election senator Clinton was still campaining in WestVerginia even though pressure is still on her to concede a defeat .
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